radio

Dualit DAB Kitchen Radio

Digital Living With its shiny chrome front and curvaceous body, Dualit's radio looks more like a muscle car (or a toaster) than a receiver of digital broadcasts. It's big, it's bold, it's heavy -- but is it the real deal or a trumped-up pretender?

8 September 2006, 11:42

Radio radio: it's a sound sensation

Digital Living If you love radio, it's time to get hip to podcasting. Technological advances mean you can now listen to a lot more radio whenever and wherever you want. The end of the programme still segues into The Archers, Radio 4's Groundhog Day refrain, but...

13 March 2006, 14:20

Will my DAB radio work at 35,000 feet?

Digital Living I was talking to someone at work and they believe that a multiband radio might be better? We've never tried this ourselves, but since DAB uses an airborne wave to transfer radio data, we'd expect reception to be excellent at 35,000 feet because of...

4 May 2006, 12:42

The new podcasting tools

Digital Living Podcasting is a growing phenomenon that gives anyone with a computer, a microphone and an Internet connection his or her own radio show. The BBC, NPR, Clear Channel stations and several other commercial radio stations are making their content...

Tags: stations, searching, mix, talk

9 May 2005, 15:48

Pure PocketDAB 1000

Digital Living A large, blue backlit screen makes it easy to see the information supplied with digital radio broadcasts. On the downside, it has no alarm clock, no recording, no rechargeable batteries, and no FM radio -- which is tedious, as we sometimes...

10 May 2005, 17:15

Choose the right Bluetooth headset

Digital Living Bluetooth technology involves two devices communicating with each other over low-frequency radio waves in the 2.4GHz range. Bluetooth 1.2 introduced new features to eliminate radio frequency interference through frequency hopping and added greater...

15 August 2006, 17:46

Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living There's a torrent of text-based information on the Net, along with podcasts, video podcasts and Internet radio. When I was ten years old I grew up in a house that had perhaps 500 paperback books, 50 records, a television set that had three channels...

26 October 2005, 12:48

Phones for sport

Digital Living The phone has a stainless steel and rubber casing that's dust- and scratch-proof, and features a pedometer, a torch, a microSD slot, an MP3 player, an FM radio and a 2-megapixel camera. Like the Nokia phone it features a pedometer, an expandable...

6 July 2006, 14:40

Outlook horror stories

Digital Living Right-click your Inbox or a subdirectory, click AutoArchive, and select the 'Archive this folder using these settings' radio button. When you've finished setting AutoArchive preferences for all of your directories (and don't forget Sent Items), go...

9 May 2005, 15:50

XDR-M1

Digital Living Sold under the Walkman brand, the XDR-M1 lets you listen to FM radio as well as DAB. It's a neat black box with tasteful styling that's typical Sony. Care to tune in to the XDR-M1?

Tags: sony uk, radio, box, listen

15 May 2005, 13:12

Hacking Napster with Winamp

Digital Living When I first heard about the so-called hack, I happened to be recording a phone interview with Gene Steinberg about his Mac Night Owl online radio show. By now, you probably know that someone figured out how to record songs from Napster's...

9 May 2005, 15:48

Extend your mobile phone's battery life

Digital Living Bluetooth is a radio standard that can receive and transmit information, but to do this it consumes battery power. Nowadays phones have a tonne of functions and all of them drain battery power, so if you don't need something, switch it off.

14 June 2006, 15:50

Smarter commuting, the cyborg way

Digital Living If it does all go pear-shaped and there's a total breakdown of the transport system, as it did last July, then there's nothing better than having a decent radio on you. Commuting in a big city has never been easy, but it's become particularly...

19 October 2005, 13:06

How do I listen to the music on my PC in another room?

Digital Living This is an open-source program, which means that anyone can write a plug-in for it, such as the excellent AlienBBC, which lets you listen to BBC radio stations, as well as 'listen again' content. I've got all my music ripped to my PC, which is in...

21 February 2007, 16:44

Windows XP SP2 nightmares

Digital Living Select the 'Turn off Automatic Updates' radio button and click OK. Under Downloads, check the radio button marked Enable under the heading 'Automatic prompting for file downloads'. and you're probably as eager to keep hackers, viruses, and Trojan...

13 May 2005, 16:27